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Keeping an eye out this afternoon. The 18z HRRR is hinting at a pretty substantial UD Helicity Swath sweeping through east Texas this afternoon/evening. Pretty much right along I-20 east of Dallas. I wonder if it is picking up on an outflow boundary being laid down by current storms in NE Texas, with later storms firing east/south of Dallas and latching on and riding it all the way to Shreveport? I stepped outside around noon and the atmosphere definitely had that feel to it. The sun is shining and it is 78/64 in Tyler.

I was hoping for some lightning and thunder overnight... but alas, nothing. Just a steady cool rain. If we aren't going to have any more winter, I'd at least like to get the severe weather season rolling around here.

Looks like a really nice week upcoming for East Texas. Boring as far as precipitation goes, but we'll be close to a record high in Tyler on Monday, February 6th. Forecast high is 83F and the record (1911) is 84F. *EDIT - Looks like the record high is for tomorrow, Tuesday, Feb 7th at 82F. The forecast high is 83F.

We ended up with 5.33" rainfall since this past weekend at my office.

At my office east of Longview, TX, we've had about 3.7" of rain measured in our rain gauge. The streams/creeks are just out of their banks. We may end up with a few more tenths to a half an inch today depending on if we get hit by any of the heavier cells that have yet to move through the area.

Finally seeing a couple flurries here and there in Tyler. Not going to get anything more than this it looks like. Congrats to you guys in DFW with the dusting.

You're still sitting better than us in East TX! Wintry precip to our SE and NW... Nada here.

The radar returns are lining up pretty well with Lake Ray Roberts, Lewisville Lake, and Grapevine Lake. Lake effect snow in DFW... who'da thunk it?

We all want storms/blizzards/interesting weather, that's why we are here in the first place. That doesn't mean we want to see it cause harm to anyone or their property. But that is the nature of the weather and there's nothing we can do about it except raise awareness and track it.

SPC mentions that the front is trending slightly faster, so the severe risk is trending the wrong direction, towards the east. Bummer. Hope that changes.

I hope I did this right and it's not time-sensitive, but I'm glad to see a Day 5 slight risk for deep east Texas. I'd like to see the system slow down a bit and move a bit farther west, but at least there's some interesting non-winter weather possible in my neck of the woods for Saturday: A cherry on the top would be a bit of wintry precip behind the front Sunday morning. At least we have something interesting to follow!

I would love to see some wintry precipitation around Christmas, as long as it doesn't mess with my drive to Iowa from DFW on the 26th!

I wouldn't start worrying until January rolls around and we haven't seen any positive signs. Wayyy too early.

I'm not a good forecaster, but does anyone see any hope at all for any kind of severe weather in the central/east Texas areas? The fall severe weather season has been a dud around here.

The rain has made it to far ETX, or at least parts of it. Getting a pretty good downpour here at work, but just a sprinkle back at my house. No lightning/thunder to speak of. *EDIT* Well, mother nature just made a liar out of me. First crack of thunder.

Heat islands. You can also pick out a handful of other cities; Shreveport, Omaha, New York, etc. And then there's the meat locker known as Amarillo.

We'll take it here in East Texas! My employer had only recorded 0.17" in September and 0.02" in October before yesterday/today.

Lows in the 50's and highs in the 80's recently in ETX. Not too shabby. Getting a few sprinkles today with an afternoon temp of 71 near Longview. We're starting to get dry again so hopefully we get something out of the current 30% chances for Thursday/Friday.

I didn't have high hopes for rain since they lowered the rain chances to 30% in Tyler, but we got lucky and picked up somewhere between 1-1.5" or so. I'm looking forward to the 80's this week.

Yes, it was a weather delay. There were thunderstorms in the area that later dissipated.

We've had maybe a couple of tenths at my apartment in Tyler, TX so far this weekend, once again missing out on any of the heavier downpours. Other areas have been more fortunate and we should get a good rain continuing throughout today. Where I work, we have received about 1"-1.5" this weekend near Hallsville, TX. It is humid outside but it is very nice to have a week of temperatures in the 80's in mid-August in Texas. Glad a lot of places are getting rain as well, luckily nothing like what Louisiana experienced.

The last few days have been interesting, with many areas getting good amounts of decent rainfall from afternoon/evening storms. Yesterday was nice here at work where we had a couple different rounds of thunderstorms and moderate/heavy rain. Afternoon temperatures fell into the low/mid-70's, which is a Godsend in July for this area. Tyler (at least IMBY) has missed most of the more widespread heavy rain, but has had a few localized downpours here and there. We have a couple more days of rain chances before it heats back up and dries out next week.

The storms are dying out now to the east. Another sprinkle/light shower event for here, if we even get that.

Fairly substantial outflow is pushing west, south, and eastward, firing new convection as it passes. I'm hopeful that with this eastward progression it might trigger a storm IMBY!

Cluster of strong storms dropping south towards DFW from the Red River. The DFW area sure has been getting lucky with these lately. We could use some rain a bit farther east.